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American History Assignment #1

  • 100 BCE

    Five Powers Treaty

    Five Powers Treaty
    Internationalist. The Five-Power treaty, signed by the united states, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy was the cornerstone of the naval disarmement program. it called for each of the countries involved to maintain a set ratio of warship tonnage. Regarded as a success, there was some controversy over expansion. While the U.S., British Japanese already has many bases in the Pacific but outlawed their expansion further.
  • Nine Powers Treaty

    The Nine-Power Treaty Japanese: Kyūkakoku Jōyaku or Nine-Power Agreement was a 1922 treaty affirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as per the Open Door Policy. That was after the suzerainty system fell apart after the Western invasions of the Opium Wars, which outlawed the Chinese "Closed Door Policy" into China of the former Imperial Qing dynasty.
  • The Dawes Plan

    The Dawes Plan (as proposed by the Dawes Committee, chaired by Charles G. Dawes) was a plan in 1924 that successfully resolved the issue of World War I reparations that Germany had to pay. It ended a crisis in European diplomacy following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles.
  • U.S. Peace Advocates

    Gerald Prentice Nye was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. He was a Republican and supporter of World War II-era isolationism, chairing the Nye Committee which studied the causes of United States' involvement in World War I.
  • The Young Plan

    The Young Plan was a program for settling Germany's World War I reparations written in August 1929 and formally adopted in 1930. It was presented by the committee headed by American industrialist Owen D. Young, creator and ex-first chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, who, at the time.
  • Geneva Conference

    The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. The part of the conference on the Korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals, so is generally considered less relevant. The Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina proved to have long-lasting repercussions, howev
  • Initial Arms Limits

    Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development, production, ... Additionally, some arms control agreements are entered to limit the damage done by warfare